Hook and eye.



No. 897,083. PATENTED AUG. 25, 1908 s. G. GILIIDDEN.. HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29,1808.

Witnesses sTEPrIENc. GLIDDEN, or DnNVILLE, ILLINOIS HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 25,1908.

. Application file d. February 29, 1908. Serial No. 418,538.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN C. GLIDDEN, a citizen of the. United States,residing at Danville, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois,have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of

- which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hooks and eyes and the object of the same isto provide a hook and eye device in which the'members are so formed andrelated that either when in engagement or out of engagement, anypressure brought to bear thereon, as by stepping upon either member orpassing a fiat-iron or sad-iron over either member will not in theslightest impair the working e'fliciency of the members in theirrelation to each other nor interfere in the slightest with thesubsequent engagement and disengagement of the members.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel construction', combination and arrangement of parts as hereinfully described,- illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying is a plan view of a hoo and eye device embodying thepresent invention. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view 0f the same. Fig. 3 isalongitudinal section through the same. Fig. 4 is a plan view of themembers,.showing a modification of the hook member, andFig. 5 is a sideor edge view of the same.

The hook member is formed of a piece of spring wire of suitable lengththe. same being bent or recurved at a central, point to form the bill Iofthe hook member and the said bill is mashed or flattened and therebybroadened as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 forming oppositely arrangedguardshoulders 2 at the inner portion of the flattened part of the billof the hook while the extremity of the hook is flattened and theentirebill of the hook is given a compound or ogee bend as clearly shownin Fig. 3, the bill of the hook thus acting itself as a guard to preventthe accidental escape of the-eye member hereinafter particularlyreferred to. The eXtremity of the bill I of the hook is deflected awayor to one side of the plane of the body of the hook to forma deflectedengaging lip 3.

drawing :Figure 1 of the hook, the terminal portions of the wire arerecurved in opposite directions as shown at 4 and then carried alongparallel with each other and with the bill of the hook as shown at 5 andafter extending such side-portions or bars they are bent outwardly andformed into attaching eyes 6.

A modification ofthe arrangement shown in Fig. 1 is illustrated in Fig.4 wherein it will be observed that other attaching eyes 7 are formed atthe inner ends of the side bars 5,

' the same consisting preferably of single coils formed by properlybending the wire at such arts. p The eye member comprises asubstantially circular or pear-shaped eye portion 8 through which thehill 1 of the hook is adapted to be inserted, the eye member terminating in attaching eyes '9. By reference to Figs. Z'and 3, and 5, it-will.be observed that the body portion of the eye member is" curved or givenan varcuate bend thereby forming what I term an engaging lip '10 whichis dis osed reversely to the engaging lip 3 of the hook. Thisarrangement of the engaging lips admits of their ready engagement witheach other and as the hook mem- ,is deflected from the normal plane inorder to cause the hook and eye members to pass by each other. W hen thehook and eye members are 1n final position of engagement,

the bodies of said parts lie in a common plane as shown in Figs. 2,- 3and 4.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that the hook andeye members can not, on account of their special forma tion andarrangement, be mashed. or bent out of shape by any ordinary pressure soas to render the same inefficient thus addin greatly tothc life anddurability of the hookand eye device, making the same more reliable andsatisfactory in use.

Instead of flattening the bill I of the hook, it may be left plain orunflattened withoutimpairing the interlock between the hook and eyemembers.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A hookand eye device comprising hook After forming the centrally arrangedpoint and eye members each provided with attaching eyes arranged inacommon lane with guard between the extremity of the bill and each otherand with the main b0 y portions the base of the hook. 10 of the members,the hook and eye members In testimony whereof I aflix my signature beingprovided with reversely deflected li s in presence of two witnesses. oand the hook member comprising parall el STEPHEN C. GLIDDEN.

1 sides and a bill parallel with and located be- Witnesses: I

tween the sides, said bill being offset or de- GEORGE T. BUCKINGHAM,

flected into the plane of the body to form a CHARLES .TRoUP.

